The Senate approved by an 83-16 vote the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act on Dec. 3, just hours after the House signed off on the compromise highway bill.
The legislation had emerged just two days before from the House-Senate Conference Committee that was tasked with resolving differences between the surface transportation bills passed earlier this year by the House and Senate.
The Senate action sends the bill to President Obama to sign-- one day before the current funding extension was to expire, on Dec. 4.
The $305-billion bill is a fully funded five-year reauthorization of federal highway and transit programs.
All indications are that the President will sign the FAST Act, making it the first highway funding bill to run longer than two years passed by Congress since 2005.
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